Year: 2023
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I’ve read about the Prayer of Jabez in High School from a small book, “The Prayer of Jabez: Breaking Through to the Blessed Life” by Bruce H. Wilkinson. It was a short read, but it changed how I see the influence of prayers. The book focused on a passage in 1 Chronicles 4. What started…
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Ah, the moment of choice when you could do everything else but what you should be doing. How easy it is to sleep through the day, except you have responsibilities to attend to. Neglect, yes. It could be an option now that you’re tempted to abandon all your responsibilities for more sleep. “Forget everything! What…
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I asked the WordPress AI assistant to “tell me a story about a man who would have talked to a woman, if only when the opportunity for him to confidently greet her happened but did not.” The statement in the parenthesis is the prompt I used to generate the content you’d be reading in the…
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When we were out for a grocery run, I was surprised to see my husband take out a pack of cheese hotdogs from the frozen goods section. Why? Because he doesn’t particularly want them like I do. And seeing him grabbing a pack was confusing because you should expect him to get the regular kind,…
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Human evil
1–2 minutesWatching the Upload TV series was fascinating, where humans can upload their consciousness onto the internet and live forever (perhaps as long as there is internet). Imagine a digital afterlife, seeing dead people in real life still alive digitally. You’re in a long-distance relationship with them (because you can’t be with them in person but can still…
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If you’ve been pondering how some people get many things done in a day, knowing that you spend the same hours but feel like you’ve done nothing (except binge-watching what’s new or doom-scrolling through social media) most of your waking hours. You feel like waking up from a stupor. “Something has to change,” you tell…
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Important tasks
1–2 minutesBig tasks, often due later, can be tackled by breaking them down into smaller pieces and scheduling dedicated time for each. But because of the lag between assignment and delivery, you could fall into the temptation of holding the task off until later, only to find yourself cramming one day because you realize that the…
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